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A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world. Full summary » | Add synopsis »

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The 1927 Packard 7 Passenger used in the movie was actually Charles Lindbergh's car, given to him by the mayor of New York (Jimmie Walker) after his direct, non-stop flight from New York to Paris. The chauffeur in the movie is the owner of the car from RM Classic Cars of Blenheim.See more »

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Revealing mistakes: In the Papua radio shack and the Naval facility, no one changes the transmitter from Standby to Transmit during the shortwave radio conversation.See more »

Nice attempt to capture the feeling of the time of the flying legend
Amelia Earhard, who was an important aviation pioneer in the late 20s
and 30s, a time that relegated women to second class citizens in many
respects. I thought it was a well done film but not a film for
everybody-maybe a film for anyone who has ever had an interest in
planes and the history of important people in that genre. Excellent
shots of early planes and the roaring days of flying in the 20s and
30s. Sad ending, which could not be avoided considering the tragic way
Amelia Earhard vanished on the way to a tiny island in the vastness of
the Pacific ocean in 1937. I read somewhere that someone found a pair
of flying boots washed up on a small atoll in that area of the Pacific
back there somewhere timewise, that some folk think might have
originated with the last flight of AE. There are thousands of small
islands in the Pacific, but not much where AE was flying, according to
what I have read about her. Well, all in all, a film for history buffs
and aviation fans, not for everybody, but not bad at all if you like
that type of thing.People were not the same back then and I think the
film strives to capture the way people were, and perhaps now, they
appears stuffy, but I think they were that way.

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